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African Americans -- Photographic portrait

 Subject
Subject Source: Local Lc

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

African American Photographic Portraits

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3381
Overview

Twenty-four tintypes and six paper photographic prints featuring formal portraits of mostly African Americans. Includes two tintypes and three prints of Caucasian women. All subjects are unidentified except for Mrs. Null and her daughter Hilda on a print dated October 1953. On evidence of the clothing, the tintypes appear to date from the 1880s. This collection was found in Jefferson County, West Virginia.

Dates: 1880-1953